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There is another thread where people are giving advice about how to keep and improve a kindergarten student's second language skills during the summer.  Advice given includes special camps and summer schools.

It makes me very happy that this student's parents can afford those extras.  It also makes me realize that we are never going to even come close in closing the achievement gap.  You can have as many standards as you want and as many tests as you want, but if a kid does not have parents with resources like this, they will fall behind.

And, the public schools are not putting money into summer programs anymore because they don't have it.  If the feds want some help with solutions, maybe this is one place to start.  Fund summer school for these kids.  Also, expect reasonable amounts of improvement for individual students and stop focusing on "group gaps".  Lower SES will always do less well because of the above type of activities.  The government can never replace the home influence unless they set up residential schools or mandatory adoptions.  [/quote]

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